vibraphone

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Squeezing past a set of congas he came to his signature instrument – the vibraphone.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

On “Rated OG,” he adds intriguing curlicue accents to a chord progression rendered on vibraphone as a forceful, distorted bass riff chugs along underneath.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

They became his weapon of choice after picking up the vibraphone as a Thomas Jefferson High School student at age 17.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

When Puts reaches for percussion instruments, he chooses the sweeter ones — glockenspiel, crotales, chimes, vibraphone — and combines them luxuriously.

From New York Times • May 6, 2024

Music historians will always remember him as the man who introduced the vibraphone into jazz.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max